Intelligence For Your Health

By skipping breakfast each day and having only a cup of coffee or tea, are you thinking you'll lose weight? Think again.  By missing the most important meal of the day - breakfast - you'll be putting on the pounds.

Today's excerpt from my new book Intelligence for Your Life: Powerful Lessons For Personal Growth, focuses on taking control of your life, especially what you eat.

Because I host Intelligence for Your Life, people can’t help but ask, “Do you actually live this stuff? How has it changed your life?”  Well, one of the topics that always gets my attention is longevity.

When you reach a certain age (mine), you start to count the days. I know, it sounds macabre but I grew up in a southern fried household in the 1950s and 1960s and there wasn’t too much information about antioxidants and type-2 diabetes floating around. Stress therapy was a cocktail and a Marlboro after the ride home on the Long Island Railroad.

In the decades since, scientists have had an opportunity to study the effects of poor diet and agents like tobacco on the human body. But even with these scientific advancements, Americans find themselves in worse shape than ever before. For the first time in a very long time, the average life expectancy for kids has gone backward—thanks to our addiction to fast food and the resultant epidemic of childhood diabetes. I try to beat the odds every day by following some of the most salient pieces of intelligence I’ve gathered from our radio program. Here’s how:

I don’t skip breakfast.

Hundreds of experts agree: If you skip a good breakfast, you torpedo your chances of working and living at your potential every day. Because . . . you’ve been sleeping for seven or eight hours, and your body—especially your brain—is starved for nutrients. If you skip breakfast, your body detects the lack of calories and, not knowing when food is coming again, goes immediately into starvation mode and starts to store fat reserves.

Furthermore, since you have nothing in your stomach, your brain begins to receive desperate “I’m hungry” signals. If you don’t get to good food soon you will freak out and hit the donuts or the vending machine. If you have a high-protein and high-fiber breakfast, you not only have more energy and creative juices flowing, you likely won't be hungry again before breakfast.

John

Email John: johnsblog@teshmedia.com

I've included my daily diet in my new book Intelligence for Your Life: Powerful Lessons For Personal Growth.  The book goes on sale today! You can purchase a copy on line by visiting Barnes & Noble.

Comments

[Surren Ramsingh]

Hi John,
God bless you. You are doing exactly what God wanted you to do.....sharing knowledge to all!
Thanks you ever so much.